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how to upgrade from Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS to Ubuntu 18.04.6 LTS
I upgraded from Ubuntu 16.04 to 18.04.1 LTS unexpectedly using below commands,which should be 18.04.6 LTS
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo reboot
lsb_release -a
No LSB modules ...
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Can't upgrade from 16.05 to 18.04 [duplicate]
So for more clarification from the last post i will redo it; Ok, so i used crouton to install Ubuntu 16.04 with gnome, and its nice, but little applications actually work...
I first tried the update ...
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Correcting dependencies... failed. After upgrade ubuntu 16.04 to 18.04 [duplicate]
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Correcting dependencies... failed.
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
dh-python : Depends: ...
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Problem when upgrading ubuntu 14 to ubuntu 16 [closed]
While upgrading from Ubuntu 14 to Ubuntu 16 via do-release-upgrade, I ended up with the following relocation error:
apt-get: relocation error: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libapt-pkg.so.5.0: symbol ...
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do-release-upgrade from 16.04 failing due to "Your python install is corrupted."
When trying to upgrade from 16.04 LTS via do-release-upgrade, I was getting the following error:
Your python install is corrupted. Please fix the '/usr/bin/python3' symlink.
Trying the many ...
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E: Failed to fetch http://ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports/dists/xenial/main/binary-amd64/Packages 404 Not Found [duplicate]
I have been trying to upgrade from Ubuntu 16.04 to Ubuntu 18.04 but the sudo do-release-upgrade is failing with "Please install all available updates for your release before upgrading." ...
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Should I remove libraries from lintian and x86_64-linux-gnu directory?
I have some libraries namely related to libboost. I would like to remove it completely. But, even after doing apt-get purge, some files are still present in directories /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu, /usr/...
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server certificate verification failed. CAfile: /etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt CRLfile: none
I am trying to follow steps described on Tor Project Debian Repository page to install latest LTS tor packages.
When I run the apt update command, I am getting following error
<omitted unrelated ...
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apt-get purge - not working properly [closed]
I've been having really long shutdown times. Today I noticed Ubuntu was stuck on ending a teamviewer process. I don't use it anymore so I decided to remove it.
I tried from the Ubuntu software, but ...
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Oracle JDK-1.8 installation issue on Ubuntu-16.04-LTS(xenial i386) [closed]
With below Dockerfile trying to install Oracle JDK-1.8 on xenial i386 image. But it fails during docker build.
# Install oracle jdk 1.8
RUN add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/java && \
apt-...
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How do I update to a specific version of ubuntu instead of the latest
I'm attempting to update a couple of my servers from 16.04 to 18.04. I run sudo apt-get dist-upgrade then sudo do-release-upgrade. It was my understanding this would take my server from the version it'...
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Upgrading from Ubuntu 16.04 in late 2021 [duplicate]
I got access to a computer using Ubuntu 16.04. Since it is out of support, I am in need to upgrade it to, say, 20.x.
To do this, I am prompted to execute sudo apt-get update before. But this gives the ...
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Is it possible to prevent R package conflicts while upgrading Ubuntu 16.04 LTS with R from CRAN to Ubuntu 18.04 LTS?
I have fully updated Ubuntu 16.04.7 LTS amd64 which was configured for RMarkdown/bookdown, LaTeX publishing using the following commands:
sudo apt-get install apt-transport-https
cat <<EOF | ...
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Can't upgrade Ubuntu 16.04 to newer release
I have a HP EliteBook 2540p. I want to upgrade my Ubuntu 16.04 to a newer release. I found that I need to upgrade to 18.04 before going to 20.04.
I tried the recommended procedure by updating the ...
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Install PHP 7.x on Ubuntu 16.04
I know this question has been asked a lot, but I've always been led to the same answer which is not resolving my issue.
The solution that's provided is usually along these lines:
~$ sudo apt-get ...
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No module named 'uaclient' during `sudo apt upgrade` (ubuntu 16.04)
I'm trying to upgrade my desktop from ubuntu 16.04 to 18.04.
(I regret not having upgraded it earlier before the ubuntu 16.04 EOL arrived. Two weeks ago I have upgraded two 16.04 notebooks to 18.04 ...
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The repository 'https://apt.repos.intel.com/mpi all Release' is no longer signed during `apt-get upgrade` in ubuntu 16.04 [duplicate]
I'm trying to upgrade ubuntu 16.04 to 18.04, but the first step gives me this error.
ckim@chan-ubuntu:~$ sudo apt-get update
[sudo] password for ckim:
Get:1 file:/var/cuda-repo-10-0-local-10.0.130-...
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I am unable to install a package [duplicate]
I want to install a package on Ubuntu 16.04, but receive an error when performing this command:
$ sudo apt-get install libavcodec-dev libsdl1.2-dev xsltproc libbullet-dev libsdl1.2-dev libgoogle-glog-...
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error: Could not find suitable distribution for Requirement.parse('six>=1.9')
I'm compiling a yocto build using bitbake and upon doing so, I'm seeing the following errors in the log file
Searching for six>=1.9
Reading https://pypi.python.org/simple/six/
Download error on ...
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Ubuntu is slow - apt-get update is slow, the boot time is slow, etc
Since Thursday, my Ubuntu 16.04.7 server has been extremely sluggish, even when the load is below 1.0.
apt-get update and apt-get upgrade are both extremely slow. The boot time also takes ages.
I have ...
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Problem with the Synaptic Package Manager for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS [duplicate]
For the last two years, I have not been able to do handle any changes, update or install new software as there is a major issue with the Synaptic Package Manager and also a similar situation occurs ...
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error updating python 2.7.12 on xenial [duplicate]
I did the following but still fail to update the python2 to the latest build
sudo apt update
apt list --upgradable
Listing... Done
libpython2.7/xenial-updates,xenial-security 2.7.12-1ubuntu0~16.04.14 ...
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Missing File in a Package? [duplicate]
I used to have squid installed. And I wanted to clean up to have the default config.
I did:
apt remove squid --auto-remove
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state ...
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"fatal: cloning the git-repo repository failed, will remove '.repo/repo' " upon running repo init <...>
I've been running into this issue every time I run a repo init -u https://source.codeaurora.org/quic/le/le/manifest.git -b [branch] -m [manifest] command.
>>
>> repo 1.12.16
stderr:...
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E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1): Something got wrong during R installation
I just wanted to install R via CRAN, but something got wrong completely.
What ever I try, I cannot install, remove, or reinstall any packages.
I though dpkg is broken, but my attempt of reinstalling ...
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Downgrade sudo package in Ubuntu
I just uppgraded sudo from 1.81.6 to 1.9.5 version and found out that the new version not work properly with SSH LDAP account, so I want to downpgrade by using apt install, but it not working.
root@...
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Cannot purge old kernels due to "unmet dependencies."
My virtualbox VM (Ubuntu 16.04) is running out of disk space. Found there are old kernels. I've reached a standstill, because I cannot delete them due to unmet dependencies. Even if I try to --ignore-...
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Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/cups-daemon_2.1.3-4ubuntu0.11_arm64.deb
I am not able to apt-get upgrade, I get this error. Tried multiple solutions but nothing worked. I tried to install 'cups-daemon' package and again I get below copied error. How do I resolve this?
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No apport report written because MaxReports has already been reached cant install packages [duplicate]
Hello I cant install any packages anymore.
I think this is because I run sudo apt-get upgrade.
If I try to install for exmaple xclip I get this output:
Reading package lists... Done
Building ...
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PPA purge does not seem to remove the PPA?
I did:
sudo ppa-purge ppa:cybermax-dexter/sdl2-backport
and got:
Updating packages lists
W: The repository 'http://ppa.launchpad.net/cybermax-dexter/sdl2-backport/ubuntu xenial Release' does not have ...
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How to recover from an apt-get bricked system
I am on a laptop running Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. However,recently, when uninstalling some packages with apt-get remove, when I specified multiple packages (like apt-get remove package1 package2 package3) ...
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Upgrade to Ubuntu 16.04 LTS broke ZFS
I have delayed the update of my file server from 14.04LTS which I did yesterday. That upgrade totally broke ZFS.
I have tried everything I found on this site, like:
ZFS install on Ubuntu 16.04LTS
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Cannot Install nor remove from ubuntu 16.04.7
After running a latest update and upgrade the PC doesn't allow to install nor update giving me error
[sudo] password for velukutty:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
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Error when installing libtiff5-dev
I've got stucked for 4 days on installing openCV.always got error while compile the source code.
I assume because libtiff5-dev not installed on my machine, then I tiedy to install libtiff5-dev, here ...
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A problem in installing R in Ubuntu 16.04 [duplicate]
I've been trying without success to upgrade R in my Ubuntu 16.04 from 3.4 to the latest version in order to install some packages. Following some solutions, I did a purge by removing all r-*. then ...
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I've just tried "sudo apt-get update" but it failed [duplicate]
I needed to add some libraries from git but when I tried updating it showed the following error "E: Malformed line 3 in source list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google-earth-pro.list (type)
E: The ...
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"apt-get: error while loading shared libraries: liblz4.so.1" in Ubuntu 16.04
Whenever I try to run commands like:
sudo apt-get install
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get update
I get the following error message instantly:
apt-get: error while loading shared libraries: liblz4....
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Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code(1) while trying to upgrade python?
I am currently running Ubuntu 16.04 and currently running python version 2.7.12. I am trying to upgrade it to python 3 . So i run the following commands:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:deadsnakes/ppa.
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How to "remove software from Launchpad PPA" in order to do-release-upgrade?
I am trying to upgrade from 16 LTS with a command
sudo do-release-upgrade
but it failes with
Could not calculate the upgrade
An unresolvable problem occurred while calculating the upgrade.
This was ...
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sudo apt-get update getting connection timed out error in Linux 16.04 [duplicate]
I'm getting below error when sudo apt-get update
Err:1 http://ppa.launchpad.net/webupd8team/java/ubuntu xenial InRelease
Could not connect to 185.46.212.88:80 (185.46.212.88), connection ...
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How to resolve ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'apt_pkg'
I was trying to add a ppa using the command
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:nathan-renniewaldock/flux
I got the following error.
panda123@panda123:~$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:nathan-renniewaldock/flux
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Why an old Nodejs version is installed on my Ubuntu machine [duplicate]
I installed Nodejs on my Ubuntu:
$ cat /etc/os-release
NAME="Ubuntu"
VERSION="16.04.6 LTS (Xenial Xerus)"
ID=ubuntu
ID_LIKE=debian
PRETTY_NAME="Ubuntu 16.04.6 LTS"
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Can't update Ubuntu server 16.04 to 18.04 due to missing phpMyAdmin PPA
I'm trying to install the latest updates for 16.04 so I can upgrade to 18.04. I'm getting errors with the phpMyAdmin PPA, which I understand is due to the fact that the original package maintainer (...
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Add external package installation repo source [duplicate]
I need to add the following repo in ubuntu 16.04:
deb http://apt.llvm.org/trusty/ llvm-toolchain-trusty main
I attempted to add that repo by typing following command:
sudo add-apt-repository "deb ...
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Stopped on initramfs prompt after reinstalling "initramfs-tools-core"
Executed the command sudo apt-get install --reinstall initramfs-tools-core after facing some dependency issues on installing a package using apt-get. Then laptop got stuck on initramfs.error
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E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1), ubuntu 16.04
How to fix this issue.
I will show you every command and output that I tried to use them.
sudo apt-get update
Hit:1 http://packages.ros.org/ros/ubuntu xenial InRelease
Get:2 http://security.ubuntu....
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sudo apt-get update display message connecting for infinite time
sudo apt-get update display message connecting for a long time and later time-out error is thrown. I have also tired cleaned up /var/lib/apt/lists/* and I have tried all the help from google but no ...
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How to install glmnet on R 3.2.3
i need to install glmnet package for my R, but it said it doesn't support the version i installed (3.2.3).
I have tried to install R 3.6. the problem i am facing is that to install R 3.6, i need ...
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set correct version of ubuntu
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my system thinks it's supposed to download packages for bionic even though I am still on xenial. I can't upgrade from xenial to bionic, because I should first upgrade all available packages. ...
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ImportError: No module named 'encodings' on Ubuntu 16.04
My Ubuntu 16.04 has broken packages and unmet dependencies. I tried to fix the system as suggested by using:
sudo apt-get -f install
Once I do that. I get these packages will be installed:
The ...
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